ByteDance’s all-in-one team workspace — channel-based chat alongside docs, calendar, and video meetings, positioned as a Slack-and-Notion-style alternative.
Our take
A genuine team-collaboration alternative rather than a personal messenger standing in for one — Feishu is the China-market build of ByteDance’s Lark, which bundles channel-based team chat with docs, calendar, and video meetings in one workspace, the same territory Slack itself competes in; a third-party “Slack vs. Lark” comparison and Homebrew’s own “project management software” categorization both back that up independently. The catch for an English-language Mac directory: feishu.cn is the Chinese-market site and app, and its own homepage couldn’t be independently verified here (it blocked this session’s crawler) — the identical product ships internationally as Lark at larksuite.com, which is what most teams outside China actually install. Worth checking which one matches your team before installing, and treat pricing as unconfirmed for the China-market build specifically.
- Price
- unknown
- License
- Proprietary
- Requires
- macOS 11 or newer, Apple Silicon or Intel, per the Homebrew cask (separate per-architecture builds listed).
- Get it via
- Homebrew
- Developer
- ByteDance (Lark Technologies)
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What it does
Chat plus workspace, not chat alone
Channel-based team messaging alongside docs, calendar, and video meetings in one app, rather than chat as a standalone product.
The deal
Worth knowing: feishu.cn — the vendor’s own homepage — couldn’t be independently scraped for this listing, so pricing is marked unknown rather than borrowed from the international Lark counterpart’s published rates. Feature and category framing draw on Lark (same company and product, different market branding, at larksuite.com) and on Homebrew’s package index, not on feishu.cn directly.
Feishu — questions people ask
Is Feishu free?
Feishu costs unknown.
Does Feishu work alongside a notch app like Alcove?
Yes — Feishu lives in the screen, so it runs happily alongside any Dynamic Island hub or notch app.
Where can I download Feishu?
Feishu is available via Homebrew.
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Listing hand-verified August 28, 2026 from the developer's site and public sources.
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